TRAGODIA SERIES

Tragodia VIII

Tragodia VIII pairs a notably smooth, pale face — cleaner than almost anything else in the series — with a black mass that drips from a gothic spire overhead, pooling into a thick bulb near the base. The spire belongs to church architecture; what’s dripping from it reads more like tar or melted wax.

The face staying nearly untouched while everything attached to it decays is the inversion this piece runs on. Elsewhere the face usually carries the weathering while the ornament stays intact; here it’s reversed, as if the surface closest to memory holds up longest.